Gabriel Leclerc owns two cottages in Calabogie, Ont. with his family. He's taking them off Airbnb after the township introduced short-term rental licensing rules in 2024.

He and some other cottage owners say between fees and a complex administrative process, it's no longer worth renting out their vacation properties.

"We were frankly not surprised because we knew that a lot of different municipalities and communities were looking at those types of licensing," he says. "But when we started going through it ... the rules and the intrusiveness of the process just became more excessive."

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Short-term rental licensing rules are becoming a popular way for municipalities to regulate vacation homes in Ontario's cottage country. But the n

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